Hacker News: hext

New comment by hext in "The ways we contain Claude across products"

hext — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:23:55 +0000

100% agree, and so happy to see somebody call this out. If you go on /r/SelfHosted or any other novice oriented forum, you’ll quickly realize that most users are simply “keeping up with the joneses” when it comes to security & redundancy. That itself is fine I guess, but the zero tolerance they have for anything else is just absurd.

New comment by hext in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

hext — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:48:17 +0000

Right right, I'd prefer management lock themselves in a closet and not engage with the outside world.

New comment by hext in "AI coding is gambling"

hext — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:26:48 +0000

I think it’s fair to call those things out 100% of the time regardless of the LLM usage. Not sure what gave you the impression otherwise.

New comment by hext in "AI coding is gambling"

hext — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:51:32 +0000

Absolutely. Really gross to see. Heavy majority of the complaints boil down to “I can’t blindly trust everything posted here now?” - as if they could before?? So entitled.

Also annoys me that all of the suggestions on how to handle filtering AI demonstrate a clear lack of understanding around how agentic coding works. Like if you can’t be bothered to understand why “ban any project that uses AI” is not possible, the entire subreddit is probably above your pay grade…

New comment by hext in "AI coding is gambling"

hext — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:30:45 +0000

If you enjoy the flamewar, check out /r/SelfHosted which has been losing it's mind over the last few months. The heavy heavy majority of that community is somehow incredibly anti AI despite the fact that the previous "spammy" posts (before ai assisted projects) were all "what is wrong with my docker compose file"??

New comment by hext in "AI coding is gambling"

hext — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:28:33 +0000

Sure, I bet they didn't outright dismiss them as useless to the entire field though! I'm sure they still understood the value those fancy tools provided to their peers.

New comment by hext in "Claude Code is all you need"

hext — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:54:48 +0000

Probably just needs a slight update to expand the relevant context of child comments. I bet it's still comparing "What's the catch?" to the OP article.

New comment by hext in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

hext — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:57:20 +0000

Exactly their point. That $50k of rent includes the cost of repairs & upgrades. The $50k you pay the bank does not.

New comment by hext in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

hext — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:12:53 +0000

People want prosperous livelihoods not just jobs. Do you think those working those low paying dead end jobs are just completely content with having zero mobility or financial security?

That uber driving might be living in their car but at least they are employed right??

New comment by hext in "ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity"

hext — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:37:11 +0000

Pretty funny thread, thanks for sharing. No idea what they are thinking...

New comment by hext in "ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity"

hext — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:26:22 +0000

The first comment in the thread is a victim of ScanOSS's spam mocking them by opening an issue in their repo following the same format as their bot.

New comment by hext in "The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player"

hext — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:29:05 +0000

You can go out for drinks with coworkers and not show up hungover the next day... Like, office happy hours are basically a cliché at this point.

New comment by hext in "Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently"

hext — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:27:34 +0000

Async communication is not even remotely close to socializing, and hardly feels like genuine human interaction.

New comment by hext in "Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco"

hext — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:32:31 +0000

Have you considered the impact social media has on in person dynamics amongst school age kids?

Insanely naive take.

New comment by hext in "A redstone PC in Minecraft to play Minecraft inside Minecraft (2022)"

hext — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:35:21 +0000

I feel like I’ve seen this headline at least 20 times over the last 5 years.

New comment by hext in "WW2 Meteorology"

hext — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:34:11 +0000

You’re not wrong, and I hate to defend the US but, come on. The Holocaust is on a whole other level.

New comment by hext in "Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach"

hext — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:42:36 +0000

> I strongly feel that, unless you have some acknowledged difficulty in dealing with extraneous information, it is just not reasonable to expect the world's data to be presented to you prefiltered, "on a plate". If you do have a recognized problem with information overload, you'll have to accept that some info sources are not for you. This is not ableism.

This is an incredible take, I strongly agree. I haven’t been able to articulate my thoughts as well as you have here but I completely agree.

This is incredibly reductionist and I’m not trying to strawman here but I feel it’s appropriate. There’s this huge group of people that absolutely despise & openly mock Apple users but simultaneously seem to want some extreme guide rails in their web experience. Absolute lunacy, lol.

New comment by hext in "The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]"

hext — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:30:58 +0000

Advertising, as a field, has had a horrible reputation since way before anyone on this site was born.

New comment by hext in "Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them"

hext — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:42:51 +0000

> Schizophrenia was already there, the trip made it apparent.

That is exactly what they are saying.

New comment by hext in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

hext — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:52:49 +0000

Right, if you aren’t already doing this, you’re about to have to screen every single comment online in a fucked up game of ‘human or robot’